Socket-shank for hoes.



PATENTBD MAY 16, 1905.

N. L. GARRETT. SOCKET SHANK FOR HOES. APPLIOATION FILED JUNE 25,1904.

F do? wifmaaoao UNITED STATES Patented May 16, 1905.

NATHAN L. GARRETTpOF MATTHEWS, INDIANA.

SOCKET-SHANK FOR HOES.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent N0. 789,905, dated May 16, 1905.

Application filed June 25, 1904. Serial No. 214,132.

[0 all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, NATHAN L. GARRETT, a citizen of the United States, residing at Matthews, in the county of Grant and State of Indiana, have invented new and useful Improvements in Socket-Shanks for Hoes and other Garden-Tools, of which the following is a specification.

The special object of the invention is to enable a hoe-blade of any desired width to be quickly attached or detachedand substituted one for another in a socket-shank. This has reference to a hoe, rake, potato-digger, or any other garden-tool. By this means any size of blade may be readily changed or diflerent garden-tools used with the same shank and handle.

Figure 1 of the drawings is a plan view,Fig. 2 a side elevation, and Fig. 3 a front view, of a blade.

In the drawings, A represents a tool-shank, with the usual handle-socket a and the crooked arms a a. In the ends of the latter are the open slots (1 a through which pass the rivets a if.

B is a blade, which may be of any suitable size or width and provided with the vertical slots 5, which are joined with the horizontal slot 1) at the bottom, both together forming an L-slot.

The blade B ispushed down in the slots a so that the rivets a may pass u the slots 1) and then may be pushed from eft to right into the horizontal slots 1). This prevents the blade from displacement by an up or down movement. In order that I may prevent any lateral movement, it is necessary to use the pivoted swinging catch C, which is turned up into the vertical slot 1), as shown in Fig. 1 of the drawings. Of course the catch may be pivoted on the outside of either arm a It will thus be readily seen that a blade of any size may be quickly fastened in the shank-arms and easily replaced by another blade or tool.

Having thus described all that is necessary to a full understanding of the invention, what I claim as new and of my invention is A tool-socket having open slots a in the ends of its arms a, and rivets (1 across said slots, in combination with a blade B having the L -slots b b and a catch 0 pivoted on the outside of one of said arms as shown and described, for the purpose set forth.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

NATHAN L. GARRETT.

Witnesses EVERETT W. TRooK,

HARRY S. BAKER. 

